The Alex McKnight series is a fictional crime series by author Steve Hamilton featuring protagonist Alex McKnight, a former Detroit police cop. The setting for the books is Paradise, a town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The series is published by Minotaur Books.
Awards and honors
The first book in the series, A Cold Day in Paradise, won both the Edgar Award and the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Hamilton has twice been a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best Novel (North of Nowhere, Blood is in the Sky)
Books
A Cold Day in Paradise (1998) Winter of the Wolf Moon (2000) The Hunting Wind (2002) North of Nowhere (2003) Blood is the Sky (2004) Ice Run (2005) A Stolen Season (2006) Beneath the Book Tower: An Alex McKnight Short Story (2011) Misery Bay (2011) Die a Stranger (2012) Let It Burn (2013) Dead Man Running (2018)